Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We used some Human Centered Design techniques from their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book. It was the most stimulating web platform strategy session that I have ever experienced! I love being exposed to new ways of working, taking process notes, observing techniques, and thinking about how to apply to my own work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement. Presents a report with quantitative analysis that demonstrates value. Does not know where to start.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. The process for the one and half day lab used techniques that fall into these categories: Looking and Observing: Unpacking the Context for 21 st Century Advocacy.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

For brevity let’s decide that it is about technology, techniques and processes for understanding what’s in your data and driving your business practices. An organization driven by analytics requires leaders who leverage the tools, techniques and processes as a flexible, mutable guide for driving efficiency and results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Asking for feedback about how to improve the school experience is also a good technique, as used in the example above is from URJ Camp Kalsman. There are several tactical techniques that consistently work on Facebook to inspire engagement. Here’s a brief summary of the tip with a link to the full post with more tips.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Optimize your page’s images and content, utilize caching techniques, and invest in a reliable hosting service. They also often provide features for data analysis and reporting, enabling nonprofits to gain insights into their website performance and user engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Moderate Approach: Understand the argument for an early investment but will also insist on a sound cost/benefit analysis when new ways of doing things are not yet fully proven. Jeremiah Owyang has a good analysis of what features Google + needs to go mainstream. Wait for maturation? What are the potential uses for nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

There have been a lot of questions about customized Facebook landing pages and my business partner at Zoetica, Kami Huyse, wrote this fantastic summary of the resources shared. This post harvests some of the insights shared about social media measurement and nonprofits. The dashboard shows rough sentiment analysis, # of mentions and links.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

He didn’t do the “sage of the stage&# thing, he gave ample opportunities for the audience digest the ideas he shared as well as engage them in conversation. Alison Carl White from NPower Seattle has a good summary on her blog. Social Network Analysis Tools for Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

As FrogLoop blog concludes in its recent analysis of MySpace, "Social networking sites are essentially a microcosm of the internet, and hosting a profile on either is akin to managing a website. Drop a comment or link back and I'll round it up for next week's summary. Jon Stahl has a live blog post of remarks by the speakers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. David Armano's " The Collective Focus Group:Listen, Learn, and Adapt " was written for the business audience in mind, but the concept and techniques can be used by nonprofits and more importantly lead to success. Task Analysis.

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2023

Enhanced Data Analysis AI can also analyze data more quickly and effectively. is an AI meeting assistant that automatically records audio, transcribes spoken words into text, captures slides, and generates summaries – all in real-time. Using statistics and modeling techniques, predictive analytics helps predict future outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

In addition to the summary, the music director is blogging about on how the story can combine with some music and acting and singing to become a finished piece. The story is line is being summarized regularly on the blog. Here's Act 2. Anyone can contribute. Just tweet your line of the story to @youropera.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

SMART Objectives are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely objectives. The Aspen Institute’s Nonprofit Advocacy Campaign guide points out they come in three flavors: Tactical: Tools and Techniques. Results: Money, time, or other tangible tesult that can be converted. Capacity: People, content, work flow, learning.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 4, 2014

Run some basic data analysis on your donor database, and create a couple of message alternatives that would appeal to your donor segments. CHRIS: There are a lot of techniques and best practices for improving data capture … and learning more about our constituents. How does a small organization afford to do that?

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sgEngage

APRIL 8, 2022

The analysis is based on a July – June fiscal year, covering the period of FY2017 through FY2021. Many summit organizations reported on virtual events and expanded uses of other techniques that they hope to continue in a post-pandemic world in 2022 and beyond. billion in FY2021. The key themes for the 2021 Sustainer Summit are: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2012

Last week, I wrote a post that summarized some tips, resources, and tools for using Pinterest. I took a look at a couple of the measurement tools available for Pinterest and got on the waiting list for Pinerly after reading this analysis from the Poynter Blog based on stats provided by Pinerly. Followers: Gives a measure of reach.

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Forj

AUGUST 30, 2017

Web Courseworks’ customer CHEST (the American College of Chest Physicians) educates hundreds of practicing physicians, annually, on technology and procedures relating to topics like difficult airway incubation and specialized ultrasound techniques. A net promoter score and faculty satisfaction scores derived from evaluation reports.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Also free is a summary analysis of your results. The survey typically takes respondents seven to 10 minutes to fill out and the results you get will identify your strengths and weaknesses, and will allow you to compare your evaluators responses to your own self-assessment. A full reporting on your results costs $79.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The session will provide a brief summary of the recent thinking on this topic by thought leaders in the field, but mostly provide an opportunity for small group discussion and sharing about current practices on this important topic. I used some metrics and measurement techniques suggested by Avinash Kaushik to look at the commenting.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 9, 2008

I'm excited about the chance to continue to make my case that Just Another Emperor utilizes spin techniques rather than balanced research in its quest to make the case for its policy recommendations. Look at the spin technique being used here. One of the spin techniques I cite Edwards as using is the ad hominem attack.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Sue Waters offers some tips for improving the quality of screencasts and a thoughtful analysis of the pros/cons of using JingProject, a free easier to use screencasting tool also from TechSmith. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Michele Martin is already exploring.

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